Canning & Freezing Chicken

Monday was chicken canning day at our house.

I ordered 80 pounds of boneless skinless chicken breasts from Zaycon Fresh.

Gosh when there's a good sale, buy it!

Pick up time was between 8 and 9 am.

We were there before 8 and was 2nd in line.

Hubs wanted to be 1st. 😊

We borrowed a pressure canner from our DIL so we could have 2 going and get this knocked out.

At the end of a long day, we have 28 pints and

72 half pints on the pantry shelves.

5 pressure canners full.

Ernie watching in the shop, me in the house.

Without his help, I'd still be working. 

 

After all jars were filled, 

9 quarts of chicken chunks went into the freezer.

This morning, lids were removed, jars wiped with vinegar and lids labeled.

Everything is put away!

This will last us at least a year. 

Hooray for a full pantry.

I need to find more jars. 

Tuna season will be here soon.

Bonnie UFO Challenge Success!

My version of Bonnie's Sister's Choice #1 is a finished top. It's hard to tell but the border is brown with green leafy vines and itty bitty yellow and blue flowers. I'm going to find some blue for the binding. You can see it here if you want.  Another of my life's simple pleasures.....Miss Polly always posing for the camera.  We'll work on the lighting another day.

Sister's Choice #2 has one of the 6 rows sewn together with part of row 2 under the needle.  I didn't stack these blocks the right way to be able to web the top like I normally like to do. I don't know what I was thinking or even if I was. This is giving me lots of leader/ender action which is a good thing.  I am in get it done mode and I'm running out of time before the mystery kick off.

See how others are doing with their Bonnie UFO Challenge at Jo's Country Junction.

Good News Thursday

 Every day I am thankful for simple pleasures.

It doesn't take much to make me smile.

Like these daffodils ready to pop open.

And that red wagon that the kids play with and

I use to haul my basket full of wet clothes to the clothesline.

Every day my girls give me some of these.

Not that itty bitty but those always make me smile.

And when I make a mistake like this, 

I'm happy I have enough extra fabric that is doesn't matter.

The best new of all is that our health insurance has finally been straightened out.

I can stop fretting about that.

What kind of good news do you have today?

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